I'm interested in radical and anarchist political activism and human rights, I've been a dedicated activist for over 10 years. I'm also interested in biology and neuroscience, particularly head trauma, and I have worked as an EMT. I studied psychology in college because I wanted to figure people out a bit, and I still think it's really fascinating. I've recently begun teaching myself to program in PHP, I have been teaching myself Spanish on and off for several years.

My life partner xap9 and I recently opened up our relationship of >7 years to polyamory. I'm not interested in dating but am very interested in making friends and talking to other people about their experiences with poly or whatever else.

"Fight for tomorrow. Live for the struggle. Come on! We're gonna see a better day"
-- Rebel Diaz

Going to start an activist collective to work on radical issues like housing and human rights. Toward this end, just moved to Atlanta at the end of May, just bought a very old house in need of massive repairs. So working on the house and trying to get plugged into activism here. And trying to give away the old junk the house is full of!

I have a crappy van that runs (for some values of 'runs') on vegetable oil. I've learned an awful lot in the process of converting it (e.g. looping the return is a bad idea!) and I'll tell you all about it if you're curious or interested in converting a vehicle yourself.

Food Not Bombs

Not spending money

Rescuing things from the trash and finding or giving them good homes

Editing Wikipedia. Avoiding the all-too-common conflicts thereon.

I'm not sure, probably most of them think I'm weird because I don't dress any semblance of normal.

My favorite author was Orson Scott Card until he wrote Empire--forgiveness for that crap will be a long time coming. Now it's Neal Stephenson probably. Or Octavia Butler. Neil Gaiman is also a favorite, and Daniel Quinn. Dunno much about movies, but I did like Dirty Pretty Things. Leonard Cohen is probably my favorite musician. Either him or The Coup. Also like Dead Prez, Paris (the rapper, not... you know.), Dire Straits, the Violent Femmes and all eighties music. I like food that's free and vegetarian (I'm a freegan).

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OK, you must understand this in the context of how I'm supposed to be this badass EMT who's not grossed out by anything: on two occasions while watching people get stitches, I came close to fainting. I wasn't aware of having an emotional reaction to it (can you have an emotional reaction you're not aware of?) but my vision started going black and I started pouring sweat, the whole bit. I was thinking "no way, I'm not squeamish! This cannot be happening!"

You want to make a friend or talk about whatever, I'm always up for a good conversation.

Or if you can recommend a book for me to read in Spanish. It has to be fairly easy and interesting enough to keep me reading even though I have to stop and look up words. Unfortunately I'm out of Harry Potters.